"Morally, can I let a kid go without a lunch when he's telling me he's not going to eat? No, I'm not going to do that.... I can't allow the child to go without a meal. If they come to me and tell me they're hungry, I have to make sure they're fed"
Man, I'm near tears.
And what did she get for caring about the kids stomachs?
"Newton school lunch employee suspended over meal substitution" by Calvin Hennick, Globe Correspondent | May 16, 2009
A food services manager at a Newton elementary school said she was suspended this week for feeding students other items after they refused to eat the day's veggie burgers for lunch.
Kathleen Cunningham said she was suspended for an incident that occurred May 4, when Angier Elementary School received veggie burgers instead of the grilled cheese sandwiches that were on the menu. When about seven or eight students refused to eat the veggie burgers, she said, she let them choose other lunch items, including a bagel lunch or a breakfast lunch.
The bagel lunch includes a bagel, cream cheese, fruit, vegetables, and cheese sticks. The breakfast lunch has cereal, yogurt, fruit, vegetables, and cheese sticks.
"Morally, can I let a kid go without a lunch when he's telling me he's not going to eat?" the 53-year-old Cunningham said. "No, I'm not going to do that."
Michael Cronin, chief of operations for the school district, would not comment on Cunningham's case, saying the school system does not discuss personnel matters. He said the food-ordering system is intended to give parents - rather than school employees - decision-making power on what children eat.
Oh, that is SUCH BULLSHIT from a state that is REGULARLY INTERFERING with parents and schools and that has a whole agenda-pushing weight-monitoring program in place for the kids!
See: Boston Globe Bullies
"We will respect the parent's decision," Cronin said. "We're not in the business of catering to a student's whim if it's contrary to what the parents ordered."
They are the ones who ordered the menu change?
Are they ever gonna hear it from the kid at home!
Like most Newton elementary schools, Angier does not have a full-service kitchen, so meals are ordered in advance, prepared at a central location, and delivered to the school.
What a bummer! The kids don't even have a school cafeteria!
Faced with an expected deficit of nearly $1 million in food services next year, the Newton School Committee is considering whether to privatize the breakfast and lunch program - a possibility that has roiled relations with the schools' roughly 90 food service employees and their union.
Know where the $$$ is going, Bay-Stater?
Pigs at the State Trough
A Slow Saturday Special: Statehouse Slush Fund
Hollywood S***s on Massachusetts
Biotech Giveaway Was Borrowed Money
How many times I gotta put 'em up?
Also see: Breakfast, Brought to You By....
Cunningham showed a Globe reporter a copy of a memo she received from Cronin.
The document says: "Notwithstanding that you have been repeatedly counseled regarding workplace standards and been given reminders regarding adherence to the food service program's policies, you continue to refuse to implement food service policies and procedures. Furthermore, you have given no assurance that you intend to follow the procedures in the future." The missive says Cunningham will face further discipline if she continues to flout policy, up to and including dismissal.
Translation: If you FEED KIDS, you will be FIRED!!!!!!!! Seriously, readers, ever try to FORCE FOOD down a BABY'S THROAT? Doesn't work to well, does it?
How much you wanna bet those veggie burgers would have ended up in the trash?
Better the kid gets a bagel (oyvay, the jewish influence is everywhere)!!!
Cunningham, who said she was told of her suspension yesterday, said her union has appealed the suspension. She acknowledged she has been reprimanded for failing to follow the school's policy on meal substitutions in the past. Asked whether she would continue to violate the policy, Cunningham said: "I can't allow the child to go without a meal. If they come to me and tell me they're hungry, I have to make sure they're fed."
Wow! No jokes about mustaches in regards to her. What a great lady!
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Here are some pictures of other starving children, although we do not forget the millions of hungry children in Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa -- and AmeriKa.
What was it Eisenhower said?
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
–Dwight D. Eisenhower, President and five-star general (1890-1969), April 16, 1953
I couldn't have said it any better -- and would have probably said it more profanely!
